Use your old Android phone as a touchscreen for your 3D printer!

How to repurpose your old phone, or use a cheap phone as a touchscreen for your 3D printer. Why buy when you can DIY!

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** Link to the Moto E mount **

* Instructions *

Commands to type on your Klipper device:

login as (your username)
sudo apt install git
1 for install, 5 for KlipperScreen
B for back, Q for quit
sudo apt update
sudo apt install android-tools-adb
cd KlipperScreen/scripts/

*Only do this part if you changed your display number to 3*

#change
android forward tcp:6100 tcp:6000
#to
android forward tcp:6100 tcp:6003
ctrl + x
Y
Enter

*Continue here if you didn't change your display number to 3*
sudo reboot

[Liace]

Thx for that full moto x splash screen animation. The good old memories when Android was still exiting ❤️

[MarcelHuguenin]

Thank you very much, great video and after seeing this, I actually thought of a very old Android tablet I had somewhere lying around and hoping it would be 4.x.x and it was! The steps you showed were exactly right, very accurate. So right now this totally obsolete el cheapo tablet is working perfectly as my Klipperscreen. Thanks again for making this video!

[VideoCesar]

I'm glad there's always ways to breath new life into my old devices. I have about 5 old smartphones, 2 of which get regular use but the other 3 are just collecting dust. I was thinking about installing OctoPrint on one of them but now that I see we can use Klipper on it I am most definitely gonna do this intead.

[RushmereD]

Just dug a old rooted android phone out of my cupboard and going to try this, my Voron V0 needs a touchscreen. Thanks for the video 👍.

[manuirl]

Nice but now there's a builtin method to do the same but without adb, directly streaming the xserver from klipperscreen to the smartphone via wifi, not cable needed. The guide is available in the klipperscreen documentation.

[nowucwindow]

Thank you for this! I've been struggling to get my old android going for my cr10 but this video makes it so easy.

[marcusbuschbeck]

Thank you! Used my old 4.4 Huawei Mate. In the Past, i forgot to reboot after set to Display 3. Now it works 😊

[lostman]

Great video! VERY cool and both of your crimson tech videos so far are great for e-waste reduction!

[ghazimalik]

Grateful to you for this wonderful tutorial and innovation. Remarkable developer you are! Thanks

[martinyblanco]

Thank you very much for the tutorial! The video is EXTREMELY Well explained and worked perfectly. It should be noted that the commands in the comments worked for me, not the ones on the screen.

[prof]

Small addition to the topic: my OneplusOne was not working with the retail version. I had to sideload the older app version (XServer-XSDL-1.11.40). That solved everything immediately.

[AckzaTV]

really cool that someone made software to give a 3d printer one of tgise colorful menus

[ShadeDead]

... damn.. you convinced me to upgrade to klipper.. i just made an order for an dell wyse 3040 same as yours and i have an samsung galaxy S8 standing in a drawer.. after Easter Holidays i will follow your tutorials to be able to do this!

[DrPersonman]

Really damn cool! Thanks for this! The apps weren't on the app store anymore but APK pure had them, I now don't have to keep looking for a narrow screen to shove on my FLSun SR! My old HTC m9 is almost exactly the right size for the top portion! Plus, it's a much better screen than most of those little screens and way cheaper than getting a nice little touchscreen!

[nicolasmarechal]

great and clear video, thank you very much I finally manage to set klipper screen on my old tablet

[fernandocordeiro]

Awesome! Thanks for the nice information. Nice and clear. I now have something useful to do with my old Phone.

[chrisis]

Thank you so much for this video. I've been wanting to do it for a long time but couldn't get it done. Hopefully I'll make it this time

[bhushantipnis]

Very Impressive. I am gonna get in touch with you once I start with this project.

[reedsyd]

I have am not able to get the killperscreen to come up. When I connect my phone to my Pi and enable USB debugging I do not get the popup for the RSA key. I am also not getting xserver to auto open. If I open xserver all I get is the blue screen to come up. I am using 1.20.41 of xserver on Android 5.1.1.

[jefke]

well explained, i'll try it out soon. thanks